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taenia
[ tee-nee-uh ]
noun
- Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
- Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
- Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
taenia
/ ˈtiːnɪə /
noun
- (in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
- architect the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
- anatomy any bandlike structure or part
- any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
Word History and Origins
Origin of taenia1
Word History and Origins
Origin of taenia1
Example Sentences
Other major contributors to the global burden of foodborne diseases are typhoid fever, the liver disease hepatitis A, taenia solium and aflatoxin, which is produced by mold on grain that hasn't been properly stored.
The first parasite I experimented with was a beef tapeworm, taenia saginata.
On the left the remains are:— 6.Part of a female head, turned to the right, and wearing a taenia.
The choroid plexus of the pia mater turns round the gyrus hippocampi, and enters the descending cornu through the lateral part of the great transverse fissure between the taenia hippocampi and optic thalamus.
The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.
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